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Identification and Creation
Object Number
1943.250
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People
Unidentified Artist
Previously attributed to Jean-Auguste-Dominique
Ingres, French (Montauban 1780 - 1867 Paris)
Title
Portrait of a Man
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Portrait of an Unknown Man / Portrait of
a Man in a Black Felt Hat / Portrait of a Young Man with
a Top Hat / Portrait of a Young Man Wearing a Large
Black Hat / Portrait of a Man Wearing Large Black Hat
and Red and White Scarf
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1800
Culture
French
Physical Descriptions
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
75 x 60.8 cm (29 1/2 x 23 15/16 in.)
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frame: 98 x 84 x 8.8 cm (38 9/16 x 33 1/16 x 3 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
inscription: on back of frame, in white chalk: ? INGRES
Provenance
Dr. Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Lausanne, sold; [to
Seligmann et Fils, Paris (1933)], sold [through Jacques
Seligmann & Co, New York]; to Grenville L. Winthrop
(1935), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Notes:
Winthrop paid $26,000
Acquisition and Rights
Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of
Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.250
Division
European and American Art
Contact
[email protected]
Publication History
[Unidentified article], Photomonde (April 7, 1934)
[Unidentified article], Le Revue Mondiale (April 15,
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1934)
[Unidentified article], Pantheon (May 1934)
[Unidentified article], The Times [London] (April 1, 1934)
[Unidentified article], Le Jour [Paris] (April 3, 1934)
[Unidentified article], Le Monde Illustré (Mar 31 1934)
Portraits par Ingres et ses élèves, exh. cat., Jacques
Seligmann et Fils (Paris, France, 1934), no. 2
Doriece Colle, Collars, Stocks, Cravats: A History and
Costume Dating Guide to civilian men's neckpieces,
1655-1900., Rodale Press, Inc. (Emmaus, PA, 1972), p.
160, repr. in b/w
Marjorie B. Cohn and Susan L. Siegfried, Works by J. A.
D. Ingres in the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum , exh.
cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1980), p. 174,
B6, appendix B; text p. 11
Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900
in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue
including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum ,
Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA,
1990), p. 108; repr. no. 258
Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-
Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L.
Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The
Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press
(New York, NY, 2003), repr. in color p. 35, as fig. 36
Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler,
Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat.,
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des
Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), repr. in color
p. 42, as fig. 35
Exhibition History
Exposition de portraits par Ingres et ses élèves,
Jacques Seligmann et Fils, Paris, 03/01/1934 -
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04/30/1934
Works by J.-A.-D. Ingres in the Collection of the Fogg
Art Museum , Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge,
10/17/1980 - 12/07/1980
This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff
but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently
revised and enhanced. For more information please
contact the Division of European and American Art at
[email protected]
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